政治经济学经典与前沿的融合——评迪庞卡·巴苏《资本的逻辑》

An Integration of Classical and Frontier Research on Political Economy: A Review on The Logic of Capital by Deepankar Basu

迪庞卡·巴苏所著《资本的逻辑》一书充分反映了美国政治经济学界对《资本论》及马克思经济理论的研究现状。该书既是一本优秀的《资本论》导读性著作,也是一本详细介绍马克思经济理论前沿发展的学术专著。该书在立意上继承了保罗·斯威齐在《资本主义发展论》中所留下的优良传统,不仅全面介绍了马克思的经典理论,而且回应了同时代学术界的重要理论批评。该书结合了美国政治经济学界在价值与价格的对应关系、复杂劳动的还原、价值的货币表现、劳动力价值决定、产业后备军的测度、资本循环及两部类再生产体系的模型化、地租的形成、马克思—置盐阈值等方面的最新研究成果,为政治经济学经典与前沿的融合进行了有益尝试。

The Logic of Capital by Deepankar Basu has sufficiently exhibited the current research on Das Kapital and Marxian economics in the United States.It is not only an excellent introduction to Das Kapital, but also an informative introduction to the frontier research on Marxian economics.Following the tradition of Paul Sweezy’s The Theory of Capitalist Development, this book has not only discussed the classical theories in Marxian economics, but has also responded to major theoretical challenges faced by Marxian economics in the contemporary era.It has integrated the latest studies in the US on a series of topics including the value-price relationship, the reduction of complex labor, monetary expression of value, the determination of the value of labor power, measurement of the reserve army, modelling the circuit of capital and the social-production scheme, the formation of land rent, the Marx-Okishio threshold, etc.Thus, this book has made great progress in integrating classical and frontier research on political economy.